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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 01:34:37 +0100
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:15:15 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 12:09:10PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Functionally, what is the difference between:
> > 
> >    pkg_delete Y
> > 
> > and:
> > 
> >    cd /usr/ports/X/Y; make deinstall
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> none

There is one important difference, make deinstall passes -f to
pkg_delete to force the deletion.